yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toastyy:
thanks for the tip but it still results in a boot loop for me :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ravi31naik:
[Q] Help Needed with Bell I9000M [ Bricked]

Hi,

I upgraded my phone to froyo 2 days ago and it worked fine but today when i turned my phone off and then tried to boot it again it stuck on Galaxy S(GT-i9000M) Screen the main one not with animated logo. It loops on main screen. I tried Recovery but it doesn't work but the download mode works

Update:

I flashed stock 2.1 so now it goes to galaxy s animation but after that nothing the screen goes blank.

Update 2:

I get the error mounting message so i think the internal sd card is dead.

Please help

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drew071:
I've pmd u my gtalk address
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wesku:
Well if that didn't work, you could try the newest froyo :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=865701

Also that one should be faster than the JPM and many customROMs are already working with the JPU.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UltimateByte:
[Q] SGS bricked (Black screen, power button don't even work) [Solved]

Hi everyone,

It's a serious brick here.

My can't even display anything, when i press the power button, nothing happens, it doesn't vibrate, and the screen stays black. :mad:

I had natively "download" and "recovery" modes available.

What happened before that problem :

All flashes were done with Odin 1.3

I flashed JP5 with repartition, flashed JPU with repartition, then flashed "CF-Root-XX_OXA_JPU-v1.3-BusyBox-1.17.1" without repartition, it worked, then i applyed RyanZA 2.3, and it was stuck on the bootscreen with the GS logo.

So i flashed again with JPU with repartition enabled.

And after Odin said it was successful, i didn't watch the phone, but a few minutes after, i saw it was black.... So i tried to wake it up, unplugged the USB cable, pushed the power button again, removed the battery for a minute, then try again : nothing happens. :mad:

Please help me avoid a RMA !!§! :(

EDIT : Problem Solved !

3 HANDS METHOD (you can do it alone if you're good ) :

- Remove the battery

- Connect the phone with the USB cable to the PC

- Launch Odin and select your files (in this case, if you had a totally bricked SGS, you'd better check Re-Partition )

- Press the 3 buttons to enter download mode and hold them

- Put your battery inside the phone, while holding the 3 buttons

=> It should enter download mode so you can flash with Odin !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Riverriz:
Have u tried to get into recovery or download mode? Regardless of how u bricked ur phone if u have the 3button combos working u shud b able to access them.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UltimateByte:
Thx for trying to help.

I already tried, but as the normal power button doesn't do anything, the combo sadly has the same result. :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Forum_Member:
Make a jig using a micro USB cable and a 300k and 1k resistor.

You don't have to solder the jig, just twist the resistors together and make contact with the appropriate pins.

Have a look at the jig thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imkr1:
How do I know if my 3 buttons work.. Please tell me exactly which button to press first and for how many seconds? And do I have to change any setting or connect to computer when testing my 3 buttons combo?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UltimateByte:
Thx, but i quote from this topic :

"If your phone screen is always black, that is it does not display the white Galaxy S/Samsung/AT&T logo when you switch it on, then sorry, this jig will not help you."

Guess my bootloader is dead... :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rob_:
Where can you get a copy of the JK4 for this? It has happened to my phone, and I want to try reloading either the 2.1 version or the 2.2 version. Any help would be appreciated. Hate to have to take my phone in to be 'fixed' however long that will take.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UltimateByte:
Hi,

hold the middle button (home) and the volume down button for at least 2 seconds, then press the power button (so you hold the 3 buttons at the same time).

Try several times, and if it don't boot in download mode, you don't have it.

For recovery mode, it's the same, with "up" button.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UltimateByte:
ZOMG ! I found a solution here (French) :

http://forum.frandroid.com/topic/33230-tuto-reveiller-un-gs-brique-sans-cable-magique/

!!!!

I now have the Download mode, it's flashing the JPU again with Odin :D

As i wrote the rest of the topic, it finished installing, and IT WORKS !§!!! :D

So i translate this amazing solution for you :

3 HANDS METHOD (you can do it alone if you're good :p) :

- Remove the battery

- Connect the phone with the USB cable to the PC

- Launch Odin and select your files (in this case, if you had a totally bricked SGS, you'd better check Re-Partition :D)

- Press the 3 buttons to enter download mode and hold them

- Put your battery inside the phone, while holding the 3 buttons

=> It should enter download mode so you can flash with Odin !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomieman:
need some help big time.

I was unable to mount my internal SD.

So, I downloaded the canadian 2.1 rom and following the instructions. However, when i extracted the rar file, i didn't see any phone or crc file - only SS_DL.dll.

Followed the multi-senerios suggest here.

I'm currently at this state.

1) I can get in to recovery and i have no issues with mounting. I can data wipe, and wipe the cache.

2) Note, I don't have the format internal SD

3) I can reboot however after the animation screen, i get the black screen of death.

any suggestions? looks like my internal's mounting properly at least.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
or the internal SD could be damaged
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ajjter:
Reflash with stock and have everything ticked...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomieman:
i did. I used the stock flash provided in this thread.

BTW. I'm using a Bell (canadian rom)...

nothing worked.

Can't get passed the animation screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ajjter:
Go to samfirmware and search for your stock fw, what was the last fw you used that worked?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imkr1:
Hi

I did it several times.. Still can't go to download or recovery mode.. Why some sgs works and others don't? For me I have germany version it's unlock and SIM free.. It's should have these 3 buttons combo working right?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsgill2009:
This black screen is killing me. I need serious help !!!!

Hi,

I am having a similar problem. Last night I flashed my GT-I9000M with Froyo JP2 using ODIN. Everything was fine, but then it shut down and on boot got stuck at the boot logo. After this point I could get into download mode. After having tried everything, this morning I went to the source store and made myself a JIG to get into download mode. I was successful; installed Froyo JP2 again, but made the mistake of installing Ryanza's lagfix from market. After that my phone went dead and again got stuck at boot screen.

Since I couldn't get it to boot properly, I was unable to uninstall the lagfix. So I flashed over the lagfix with JP2 again. Then, everything went downhill from there. My phone would get past the animation and then get stuck with a black screen.

I tried all the stock roms. I think I flashed my phone over 10 times today alone, but it would give an error message saying something like: can't mound sdcard or can't find /dev/block/mmcblk0p2. I tried formatting from the recovery menu after every install, but no luck.

Now, I can't get to recovery menu, although my homemade JIG is still working fine to get me into download mode instantly.

I would very much appreciate if someone could walk me through the steps of how to format the internal sd card and get the memory blocks as they were before. Its the lagfix that made the whole thing worse.

Any kind of help will be much appreciated.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ajjter:
Are you sure you tried the right fw?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsgill2009:
Hi,

I got all my firmware from that samsung-firmware website. But none of those were for canada but US only. I don't if that could be a problem.

Right now I have JPC on the phone, and many people who seemed to have encountered the problem with the error message /dev/block/mmcblkp01 have resolved it by flashing with JPC rom. However, no luck here.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ajjter:
Ask around on the forum on samfirmware
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casami:
[Q] Galaxy S bricked after 2.2 upgrade

Hey. I feel terrible. Kies informed me that I could upgrade the firmware on my Galaxy S and of course I was happy to do so. Because I had rooted my phone to do the lag fix I first unrooted it, but FORGOT to undo the lag fix. (that is what you get if noobs start rooting - will never root again - )

So I went ahead with the upgrade and all seemed well until I needed to reboot the phone, wich it didn't do. It showed the welcome movie, then a black screen with no response. When I try to get it started in 'recovery mode' it shows the - downloading - do not remove target - screen, but it isn't downloading anything.

Kies is not recognising the phone anymore.

Is there any way to get my phone back to life again?

Mike
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsgill2009:
I guess the real problem is that lagfix changed the partition structure on the internal sd or maybe the mbr got lost in the process. You see the phone boots up to animation at the beginning but hangs after that.

If I could just find a way to see the sd card either on xp or linux and can manipulate it, then I think I can make some progress.

Rightnow, linux doesn't see my phone, even with adb, although this is not the case with xp when the phone is download mode because odin can interact with it.

So, somehow I have to fix the partition on the internal memory.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drew071:
Select Repartition and flash just the pit file. Then flash again with repartition unselected and with phone pda and csc files. Also ensure you are in DOWNLOAD mode for flashing!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackDino:
Guys, this phone is the i9000m.

You will not be able to resurrect the phone once the internal sd card has been corrupted.

Take the phone back to bell and get a loaner.

You can follow all these steps but it is a waste of time
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drew071:
i had this trouble with my handset where it did what his is doing and i recovered it. granted it wasnt a bell handset but they are fundamentally the same handset.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackDino:
This method may or may not work.

The best solution would be to just take it in,

But you could try this

1) Download Odin 1.7 & JH2

2) Extract, Exit Kies (also from tastbar), open Odin

3) Select PDA -> I9000UGJH2/I9000UGJH2-PDA-Kernel-Bootloader-CL490514-Low.tar

4) Put phone in download mode (Vol down+home+powerbutton)

5) Plug phone into computer

6) Hit start

That will revert your phone to JH2,

Then enter recovery (Vol up+home+powerbutton) and see if you have any corruption or errors mounting

Odin 1.7 + JH2 Download:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MR5C0SS9
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jude999:
URGENT NEED OF HELP - My galaxy s bricked

I need help! I'm panicking.

I just tried to upgrade my Korean galaxy s following these instructions by alovell83

1. Uninstall Kies

2. Download Korean Kies here. It's the second link down, "Kies", click the little magnifying glass to the right, then click the white button to the left.

3. important During install make sure that you select your area as Korea (probably says 대한민국, you shouldn't list it as China or anywhere in the west. ). You can chose any language for the installation.

Then this happened:

it worked until my phone rebooted. the phone got stuck right after the welcome screen (during?) basically when the android robot is floating in space. He was left there floating for 5 minutes, so I removed the battery (Only thing I could do) and booted again.

This time right after the floating robot the screen went black and the tones (couple notes) you hear when you booth the phone keep ringing every 30 seconds.

What do I do? I need my phone for work tomorrow... HELP, Please!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casami:
Hey, thanks for the trouble. I'm really hoping it works. I'll wait for the download links.

Mike
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackDino:
They are up, let me know how it goes
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casami:
It seems to be working! I am so happy! It is running firmware: 2.1 update 1. Do you think I can use Kies to upgrade to 2.2 safely now? The lag fix is gone?

Edit: The story continues in this thread...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pramathesh:
Check if your phone can go to download mode?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s.swaranjit:
[Q] Phone starts and vibarates only...is it bricked now ???

On boot with 3 buttons combo, I'm getting this message....

E:Can not mount / dev/block/stl10 (Invalid argument)

copy_dbdata_media: Can not mount DBDATA:

your storage Not Prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions

default copy content failed.

wiping / data cache and Does not Seem To fix anything.

Format sdcar unresponsive

on normal startup, after samsung galaxy logo it shows black screen with constant vibrations....

HELP me to save my phone from bricking...

if possible please describe in details...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UltimateByte:
Hi.

Did you try the "3 hand" method exactly like i said ?

On the topic i linked, they also give a hair dryer solution :

Remove your battery

Warm between 20 and 2 minutes the back of your phone with a hair dryer (in direction of the battery side), and you should be able to load in download mode when you put the battery back (with no USB plugged).

You can also try the magic cable. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAZ_:
Sounds like you messed up the partitioning. Make sure you can boot into download mode (hold Volume down+home while powering on), download some official firmware from samfirmware.com and follow the instructions using ODIN.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beamzuk1:
try this it worked for me even without the 3 button mode

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=870163
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nsa666:
go in recovery and make a wipe.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaju123:
Try download mode and if that doesn't work use adb reboot recovery.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
Both of mine went down without lagfixes. They just have shi**y hardware inside.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bestbeancounter:
Hey guys, found this post because I had the same issue as my phone got bricked after upgrading to Froyo.

Used Odin and reverted back to JH2, ran recovery mode, wiped everything I had an option for. Rebooted the system, and it still stayed in the black screen after the "S". Ran recovery mode again and tried to apply update.zip and it said

Finding update package, opening update package.

E: can't open /sd/card/update.zip, no such file or directory. Installation aborted.

So is my Internal SD clearly dead and that's it for my SGS?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
Why are you trying to apply an update.zip? You don't have an update.zip on your internal sd and that is why your getting that error.

If I'm wrong someone please correct me...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bestbeancounter:
I have no idea.. I figured I'd try everything under recovery mode and that was the only thing that gave me any sort of error. I need to find the reason why my phone isn't booting up.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chopstickninja:
help

hi im having the same problem. ive got a gti9000 on tmobile. (uk) 2.1 was good but when i went to 2.2 i got the same dramas. ive downloaded odin and the pit from the msg above but where can i get the uk 2.1 firmware from??? any help greatly appreciated.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drew071:
Here is the UK generic 2.1. Problem is u need to remove tmobole branding,ie sim lock and carrier lock after as for some reason the phone still holds on to it. Only then will kies let u update to 2.2. Use the 512pit for with this firmware. Select repartition also make sure u are in download mode.

http://www.multiupload.com/Y1UODCTSP0

The password is the same as previously posted.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davanw:
Exact same thing here. Working fine on the new froyo for a few days. I shutdown to pop in a new battery today, and on startup, it just loops on the Galaxy S GT-19000M screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsgill2009:
I think I am on to something here. Last night I searched around on Google and found my way to using adb + parted (and the tools that come with it) to change the partition on internal sd card. If I understand this correctly, the lagfix did some changes to the partition tables, which upon flashing again with Froyo JP2 somehow made some part of the card inaccessible.

Others have used these utilities that I have listed above to change create/modify existing partitions on the internal memory of the phone. Through adb I can now access those, such as the /dev/block/mmcblk0 amd mmcblk0p1, and others, but at the moment I am struggling with root permissions, and also parted has failed to recognize the listed devices, meaning it doesn't see them but I can just by doing "ls".

Maybe I'll need to actually format the internal memory completely and then rebuid the whole partition table. This should really do it. Somehow the partition got corrupted and I think it can be fixed.

Let me know if you guys have any thoughts on this. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks for all the responses to my query. Now I have to return to writing my thesis. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silubia:
Where can I find those 3 files for bell galaxy s

Thank you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robertd0619:
The post above using odin will work. I had that problem before on my tmo vibrant, same errors i was getting and all I had to do was odin back to stock rom. Just some corrupted files in the sd.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtg2:
I had your problem with one of my phones. Had to take it in for repair.

Have you tried clearing data & cache (boot to recovery using vol-up, home and power)? That's working for some people who have this problem. On my other SGS, I was able to recover after flashing a firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtg2:
Follow BlackDino's instructions in the second post of this thread. If you have a chance to recover, that is how you do it. Otherwise, you may have to bring it back to Bell for servicing.

Note: pull your external SD card before starting the process.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brmorgan:
Hey guys,

First poster here, been lurking for a while now, waiting for the 2.2 update. I THOUGHT I was doing the responsible thing with my phone by waiting for the official update and not pushing my luck with any of the prerelease stuff. So I was ecstatic when the update finally came - it went on via Kies perfectly, took FOREVER at the "S" logo startup screen but finally loaded, and worked great for an hour or so. Flash was working perfectly, it was noticeably more responsive, I was so happy. It did hang once, but it's done that before and I had a fair number of apps onboard and figured maybe one wasn't happy with Froyo. But then I went to transfer my files back via USB, and it hung halfway through the operation and that was the end of it.

Pulled the battery and it would go to black after the startup animation. After a couple hours of reading about this dreaded dead flash problem, and confirming it via the Recovery menu (says can't mount internal SD) I figured I had nothing to lose so I collected Odin and a couple different ROMS and played around with that a bit. I9000UGJK4=no, as with JK3 and JG8. Still just a black screen.

I don't know where I got it, but I have a file called "Voodoo-5-pre3-Froyo-GT-I9000-odin-pda.tar", only 7070KB. I tried that one, and VOILA! The phone will at least now BOOT (with a weird robotic voice saying something about repartitioning something, I forget) and I can make calls. I cannot connect to the data network, and none of the phone's internal storage is recognized at all, but my external SD card does work, and I verified the WiFi is also working fine by putting my Google account on the phone with that. Haven't tested GPS with that one yet. So I have no idea what that file is, you guys are the experts here! But it at least un-bricked my phone enough to make calls with. Any ideas? I'm going to try stepping back to JH2 as you recommended above, see what that does. Not too happy about not having my phone over the holidays!

PS, I was using Odin 1.3 since I had read somewhere to use that version. 1.7 is OK too?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwhooftman:
I cant tell what happened initially, but by applying the Voodoo file you have installed a lagfix which converts the partitions to another format (ext4), thats what the voice was telling you. Nothing wrong with that, as long as you remember to undo it first before flashing any other ROM through Odin!

To read about this lagfix and about undoing, go to project-voodoo.org.

Is your internal storage not recognized, or is it just cleaned somehow? Try entering your APN credentials manually to get connected to the data network again (you maybe flashed a ROM without a CSC file (Carrier Settings Customization or something like that) for your area, so your APN sttings arent set automatically.

Also, you could boot into Recovery and do a factory reset, that will probably bring back your internal memory (which is the /data partition).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsgill2009:
Ok, here's the deal. I now think that the sdcard is corrupted. This is a hardware issue and has nothing to do with the software. This is also the sole reason why I can't partition the card using fdisk. With fdisk on /dev/block/mmcblk0 I get unrecognized device and with mke2fs it gives me an I/O error, which means that some memory blocks are corrupted.

Others have experienced this very problem with their internal sd cards getting corrupted. Apparently, they were able to get it fixed with no questions asked from Samsung. I think this is the last resort and that's what I am going to do.

I have tried almost everything that is online to revive my phone. It all happened after the lag fix, hell it all happened after I started fooling around with this device. Well I had to get my hands dirty and now I have a broken phone :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackDino:
@brmorgan

Odin 1.7 + JH2 Download:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MR5C0SS9
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxximux2000:
Can't wait to be back home to try that.

Thanks in advance.

Maxx
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arthurgouveia87:
I sent the phone to Bell and got a loan one on the meantime.

****ty thing is that it is christmas season and it will take around 4 weeks to get it back :(

I'm not updating it to Froyo for a while once I get it back...